Home cinema kits can make you feel you’re at the heart of the action but fill your living room with a tangle of wiring. We listen to five that cut the clutter

KEF KIT570W, £1,100 DVD and Blu-ray discs deliver far better audio quality than broadcast TV, making it possible to recreate in a living room the sort of enveloping film soundtrack you would hear at a cinema. The problem is the amount of cabling involved in setting up a surround-sound system incorporating as many as nine speakers. KEF's 5.1 system - two front speakers, two rear ones, a central unit for dialogue and a subwoofer - cuts the clutter by using wireless rear speakers (although, being powered, they will still need to be plugged into the mains). KEF also includes a pretty decent DVD player: it will not spin high-definition Blu-ray discs but does upscale standard-definition DVDs, and has enough analogue and digital inputs to make it a versatile home entertainment hub through which you can route all your audio-visual gear, including a games console and hi-fi. The build